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How many books are there in the World? (About 13 crores)
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

Librarians must read this!! ========================== Books of the world, stand up and be counted! All 129,864,880 of you. Thursday, August 05, 2010 at 8:26 AM Posted by Leonid Taycher, software engineer When you are part of a company that is trying to digitize all the books in the world, the first question you often get is: “Just how many books are out there?” Well, it all depends on what exactly you mean by a “book.” We’re not going to count what library scientists call “works,” those elusive "distinct intellectual or artistic creations.” It makes sense to consider all editions of “Hamlet” separately, as we would like to distinguish between -- and scan -- books containing, for example, different forewords and commentaries. One definition of a book we find helpful inside Google when handling book metadata is a “tome,” an idealized bound volume. A tome can have millions of copies (e.g. a particular edition of “Angels and Demons” by Dan Brown) or can exist in just one or two copies (such as an obscure master’s thesis languishing in a university library). This is a convenient definition to work with, but it has drawbacks. For example, we count hardcover and paperback books produced from the same text twice, but treat several pamphlets bound together by a library as a single book. Our definition is very close to what ISBNs (International Standard Book Numbers) are supposed to represent, so why can’t we just count those? First, ISBNs (and their SBN precursors) have been around only since the mid 1960s, and were not widely adopted until the early-to-mid seventies. They also remain a mostly western phenomenon. So most books printed earlier, and those not intended for commercial distribution or printed in other regions of the world, have never been assigned an ISBN. The other reason we can’t rely on ISBNs alone is that ever since they became an accepted standard, they have been used in non-standard ways. They have sometimes been assigned to multiple books: we’ve seen anywhere from two to 1,500 books assigned the same ISBN. They are also often assigned to things other than books. Even though they are intended to represent “books and book-like products,” unique ISBNs have been assigned to anything from CDs to bookmarks to t-shirts. What about other well-known identifiers, for example those assigned by Library of Congress (Library of Congress Control Numbers) or OCLC (WorldCat accession numbers)? Rather than identifying books, these identify records that describe bibliographic entities. For example the bibliographic record for Lecture Notes in Mathematics (a monographic series with thousands of volumes) is assigned a single OCLC number. This makes sense when organizing library catalogs, but does not help us to count individual volumes. This practice also causes duplication: a particular book can be assigned one number when cataloged as part of a series or a set and another when cataloged alone. The duplication is further exacerbated by the difficulty of aggregating multiple library catalogs that use different cataloging rules. For example, a single Italian edition of “Angels and Demons” has been assigned no fewer than 5 OCLC numbers. So what does Google do? We collect metadata from many providers (more than 150 and counting) that include libraries, WorldCat, national union catalogs and commercial providers. At the moment we have close to a billion unique raw records. We then further analyze these records to reduce the level of duplication within each provider, bringing us down to close to 600 million records. Does this mean that there are 600 million unique books in the world? Hardly. There is still a lot of duplication within a single provider (e.g. libraries holding multiple distinct copies of a book) and among providers -- for example, we have 96 records from 46 providers for “Programming Perl, 3rd Edition”. Twice every week we group all those records into “tome” clusters, taking into account nearly all attributes of each record. When evaluating record similarity, not all attributes are created equal. For example, when two records contain the same ISBN this is a very strong (but not absolute) signal that they describe the same book, but if they contain different ISBNs, then they definitely describe different books. We trust OCLC and LCCN number similarity slightly less, both because of the inconsistencies noted above and because these numbers do not have checksums, so catalogers have a tendency to mistype them. We put even less trust in the “free-form” attributes such as titles, author names and publisher names. For example, are “Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 1234” and “Proceedings of the 4th international symposium on Logical Foundations of Computer Science” the same book? They are indeed, but there’s no way for a computer to know that from titles alone. We have to deal with these differences between cataloging practices all the time. We tend to rely on publisher names, as they are cataloged, even less. While publishers are very protective of their names, catalogers are much less so. Consider two records for “At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror” by H.P. Lovecraft, published in 1971. One claims that the book it describes has been published by Ballantine Books, another that the publisher is Beagle Books. Is this one book or two? This is a mystery, since Beagle Books is not a known publisher. Only looking at the actual cover of the book will clear this up. The book is published by Ballantine as part of “A Beagle Horror Collection”, which appears to have been mistakenly cataloged as a publisher name by a harried librarian. We also use publication years, volume numbers, and other information. So after all is said and done, how many clusters does our algorithm come up with? The answer changes every time the computation is performed, as we accumulate more data and fine-tune the algorithm. The current number is around 210 million. Is that a final number of books in the world? Not quite. We still have to exclude non-books such as microforms (8 million), audio recordings (4.5 million), videos (2 million), maps (another 2 million), t-shirts with ISBNs (about one thousand), turkey probes (1, added to a library catalog as an April Fools joke), and other items for which we receive catalog entries. Counting only things that are printed and bound, we arrive at about 146 million. This is our best answer today. It will change as we get more data and become more adept at interpreting what we already have. Our handling of serials is still imperfect. Serials cataloging practices vary widely across institutions. The volume descriptions are free-form and are often entered as an afterthought. For example, “volume 325, number 6”, “no. 325 sec. 6”, and “V325NO6” all describe the same bound volume. The same can be said for the vast holdings of the government documents in US libraries. At the moment we estimate that we know of 16 million bound serial and government document volumes. This number is likely to rise as our disambiguating algorithms become smarter. After we exclude serials, we can finally count all the books in the world. There are 129,864,880 of them. At least until Sunday. ============= URL: http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2010/08/books-of-world-stand-up-and-be-count… Dr P Vyasamoorthy, 30 Gruhalakshmi Colony Secunderabad 500015 Ph 040-27846631 / 9490804278. My blog: http://vyasa-kaaranam-ketkadey.blogspot.com/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Jobs for Stipendiary Trainees (Lib. Sc. : 6 posts) at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai
by Vinod Singh 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

Dear Professionals Jobs: Library Science: 6 (Sc-1, St-1, OBC-1, PH-3) Last date: Aug 18, 2010 Click for more details: http://www.barc.ernet.in/recruitment/vacancy24.pdf With regards, Vikusi* Senior Research Fellow (Ph.D) Dept. of Lib. & Info. Sci. University of Delhi Delhi-110007 *Vinod Kumar Singh -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Need article
by Yusuf 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

Kindly provide the following articles 1. Title: Constructing a new orthodoxy? wendt's 'Social theory of international politics' and the constructivist challenge. Author: Friedrich Kratochwil Journal Name: Millenium issue: 29 year: 2000 Pages: 73-101 title: the dialectics of world order: notes for the future archaelogist of international savoir faire author: Hayward R Alker and Thomas Biersteker Journal name: International studies quarterly issue: 28 year: 1984 pages: 121-42 -- -- Mohd.Yusuf M.Phil. Deptt. of Library and Information Science University of Delhi Delhi 110007 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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help
by Archu Sahu 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

Kindly provide me information on libraries which are using open access integrated library management software "NEWGENLIB". Archana Sahu Asst. Librarian NLUO, Cuttack - 753008 Orissa Phone no. - 06712503516 Mail id: sahuarch(a)gmail.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Need help....
by mohan 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

Dear editor, > pl.post the mail on LIS-Forum > > > > Dear professionals, > I need the following book for reference. Kindly let me know if anyone is having the book in library or anyone knows about book. > > > 1) The Electronic Library by Jennifer Rowley ,4 th Edition Library Assocation London 1998 > > > > > Katkar M.R. Teacher Fellow Library Deptatment Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University Vishnupuri ,Nanded. 431606 Ph.91-9890686994 mrkatkar(a)rediffmail.com mohanrkatkar(a)gmail.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Call for paper for International Conference on Digital Library Management (ICDLM) Jan 2011
by ICDL 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

International Conference on Digital Library Management (ICDLM) Theme: Extending Benefits of Modern Technology to Public, Academic and Special Libraries Science City, Kolkata, 11-13 January, 2011 Venue: Science City, Kolkata Organiser: TERI, New Delhi Co-Organiser: Raja Rammohan Roy Library Foundation, Ministry of Culture, Government of India, Kolkata Continuous capacity development and awareness programmes are necessary to achieve the objective of transforming the novice into digital librarians of future. The success of ICDL 2004, ICDL 2006 and ICDL 2010 has encouraged and motivated TERI, New Delhi and Raja Rammohan Roy Library Foundation, Ministry of Culture, Government of India, Kolkatai to conduct of the ICDLM 2011 which will provide yet another stimulating forum for DL professionals to share their knowledge, experience and wisdom. The conference will focus on creation, adoption, implementation and utilization of digital libraries, e-learning and a knowledge society. We invite you all to submit your research paper. Who should participate? (a) Professionals from public, academic and special libraries (b) Information Technology professionals. (c) Content and knowledge managers (d) Policy makers (e) Academicians, students and distance learners (f) Archivists and museologists (g) Information providers and vendors. (h) E-publishers and virtual electronic communities (i) Library and Information Science professionals. (j) All stakeholders in the digitization and knowledge business. Some speakers: 1. Dr. P. Anandan, Managing Director, Microsoft Research India 2. Prof. N Balakrishnan, Associate Director, Indian Institute of Science, India 3. Mr Jens Thorhauge, Director General, Danish Agency for Libraries and Media, DENMARK 4. Barbro Wigell-Ryynänen, Counsellor for Cultural Affairs, Ministry of Education and Culture,FINLAND 5. Professor Gobinda Chowdhury, Director, Centre for Information and Knowledge Management, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia 6. Mr. Jean-Marc Comment, Archives fédérales suisses, Switzerland 7. Prof. Dr. Stefan Gradmann, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Germany 8. Prof. Elena Maceviciute, Lithuania and Swedish School of Library and Information Science, Vilnius University, Sweden 9. Prof. Paul Nieuwenhuysen, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium 10. John Paschoud, InfoSystems Engineer & Projects Manager, London School of Economics Library, UK 11. Rebecca B. Vargha, Library Director, Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina, USA 12. John Paul Anbu K., Head – Periodicals, University of Swaziland Libraries, Swaziland 13. Lizhu Zhou, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China 14. Samuel Trosow, Associate Professor, Faculty of Information & Media Studies / Faculty of Law, University of Western Ontario, Canada 15. Dr Tengku Mohd T Sembok ,Department of Information Science, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Malaysia 16. Prof. ARD Prasad, DRTC, Indian Statistical institute, India 17. Dr. Subbiah Arunachalam, MSRF, India Call for papers Original papers focusing on the theme of the conference— Extending Benefits of Modern Technology to Public, Academic and Special Libraries are invited for the. Some of the topics are listed below: § DL development and management § Content organization and management § DL architecture and access management § Knowledge management § Digital preservation § DL standards and policy § Thesauri and ontologies, semantics, metadata and retrieval § Open archives initiatives/PMH § Multilingual and interoperability § Copyrights issues in digital environment § DL services and applications § Collaboration and Networking between public libraries º Digital initiatives of public libraries § Open Educational resources For details of paper submission guidelines and submission process, visit <www.teriin.org/events/icdlm >. Important dates Submission of full papers 20 October 2010 Notification of acceptance of paper with comments 05 November 2010 Submission of the revised paper after incorporating comments 20 November 2010 Take advantage of Early–bird registration offer please visit http://www.teriin.org/events/icdlm/ REGISTRATION FEE: Up to 30 November 2010 1. India and SAARC countries: Indian Rs 3000 + Rs 309 service tax 2. Other countries (including service tax): US$ 125 After 30 November 2010 3. India and SAARC countries: Indian Rs 3500 + Rs 360 service tax 4. Other countries (including service tax): US$ 150 Contact: DEBAL C KAR Organizing Secretary ICDLM Secretariat TERI, Darbari Seth Block, IHC Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi – 110 003, India Telephone 24644654, 24682100, 41504900 Fax 24682144, 24682145 E-mail icdl(a)teri.res.in Web www.teriin.org/events/icdlm India +91 • Delhi (0)11 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Disclaimer: The information contained in this e-mail is intended for the person or entity to which it is addressed, and it may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review or other use of this mail or taking any action based on it by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is strictly prohibited. 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Medical e-books and e-journal sites
by Ashwini.H.S. ashu 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

Dear Professionals, If you know any medical related e-books and e-journal sites please let me know and please name some of the usefull national and international journals and databases related to medical field. Thank you Regards, Ashwini, H.S. Librarian Apollo BGS Hospital Mysore-570023 -- Can create success, Can't create failure -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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new engineering college
by gayathri sen 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

Dear moderater, Can you please publish this as an answer for a query in this forum 1. Follow AICTE norms given in the handbook. Read it carefully and see the answer given below. Insist to add more titles in a given subject to give variety and also to increase the knowledge base for the user. It gives the perspective of different authors and how they have rendered the subject. When the college starts, minimum 4000 books and preferably 5000 books has to be added. Each branch should have 120 titles X 4 copies. Common physics, chemistry, mathematics together should have 1500 books. Rest of the collection should include general personality development, general knowledge, spiritual, general etc. Each title need not have 4 copies. Get more copies of high demand books and only one or two copies of other reference material. 2. Only latest editions to be supplied unless other wise specified. Damaged books and books with pages bound wrongly etc to be taken back. Your order should be acknowledged within a weeks time and supply status to be informed to you. Exchange rates should be current. Books if not supplied within the specified time need not be bought by the library. (Please use your discretion in this regard.) 3. Work more, waste less time in unnecessary procedures. Convince the management about your workload and try to get more staff. Take student assistants to help in the library and get amount sanctioned to pay them. Train your existing staff to perform better. 4. Keep stock register in good shape. Fill all fields required and automate your library collections. All bills to be maintained properly and produced when required. Searches to find library collections through library OPAC should be possible. You should have added and improved the library collections as per norms. NBA requires mandatory collections in department library (small collections for immediate reference) 5. You will get it from AICTE website. See the latest formula for new engineering colleges regarding book additions in the site given. Regards, Gayathri Sen PESIT ______________________________ Chief Librarian & Head Library & Learning Resource Center PES Group of Institutions 100 Feet Ring Road, BSK III Stage, BANGALORE - 560085 Ph: (080) 26821983/21722108 Extn: 229 http://library.pes.edu -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Vacancy @ Sir M Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology, Bangalore
by ravish 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

Dear Sir/Madam Vacancy @ Sir M Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology, Bangalore We are looking for ONE bright, dynamic candidate for the post of Library Assistant. Qualification required:M.L.I.Sc or B.L.I.Sc - Experience is not necessary --Salary negotiable -No TA/DA is admissible for the interview - Selected candidates only will be called for the interview and no correspondence is entertained Interested candidates can send their CV to the following e-mail id within 7 days. E-mail: sirmvitlibrary(a)gmail.com or ravishpy(a)gmail.com Or Send their application to the following Address To, Ravish P.Y, Librarian, Sir M Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology, Krishnadeveraya Nagar, Hunasamranhalli, NH-7 Via-Yelahanka, Bangalore-562 157,Karnataka,India Phone: 080-28467248, 28467082,28477024/25/26 Fax: 080-28467081 The absorbed candidate will have an exposure to all modern techniques of maintaining a good management library with hands on experience Last date to apply: 17.08.2010 Best of Luck!!!!!! ============ ========= ========= ========= ========= ======= REGARDS RAVISH P.Y, BANGALORE -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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online book selling in India
by jasim s 09 Aug '10

09 Aug '10

India is becoming a new hub to make profit by online book selling.read an article on this at http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/india/article.cfm?articleid=4502 Jasimudeen.s Library Asst. MG University Kerala. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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